address(HTML element)

Syntax

<address>

</address>

Description

The address
element isn’t used for the purpose that you may expect—that being to mark
up a physical location alone. Instead, it’s used to indicate the
contact point for the document in which it appears. This element would
usually appear in a header or footer on the page.

An address element
may contain a geographic location, but it doesn’t have
to; it could also contain a mixture of contact points. In the example
shown, the address element includes an email point of
contact, a mailing location, and a telephone number. For the purposes of
marking up a geographic location that may be machine readable, and usable
in other services, you should consider marking up the physical location
details using the hCard
Microformat.

Example

The contact details of the
“Editorial and News Team” are marked up with
address in this example:

<address>Brought to you by the Editorial and News Team:<br/>
<a href="mailto:news@example.org">Email the news team</a><br/>
Mail us at PO Box 123, Citysville<br/>
Tel +1 212 3131
</address>

Use This For …

This element is used to
mark up contact details for the author or owner of the document, in order
that the reader may use these details to contact the document’s
owner.

Compatibility

Internet Explorer

Firefox

Safari

Opera

Chrome

5.5

6.0

7.0

8.0

1.0

1.5

2.0

3.0

3.5

1.3

2.0

3.1

4.0

9.2

9.5

10.0

2.0

Full

Full

Full

Full

Full

Full

Full

Full

Full

Full

Full

Full

Full

Full

Full

Full

Full

All the browsers
tested styled the content inside the address element in
italics. There’s no suggestion in the HTML specification that they should
do anything else with this element, and support is stated as
full.